Results include Rockefeller's holdings, and the holdings of the William and Mary Libraries. To search only Rockefeller, refine the search using menu choices on the results screen. Also on WorldCat.

Online Digital Library which includes 1) primary sources and original research, 2) more than 500 research reports, scanned images, and encoded texts numbering several thousand manuscript pages, and 3) a collection of the Virginia Gazette starting in 1736 and a series of York County, Virginia probate records.

The Periodical Finder. This growing list of periodicals to which Colonial Williamsburg researchers have access to, both online and on paper.

Collection Description

The library focuses on the history and culture of colonial British America, the American Revolution, and the early United States. Through its specialized collections of books, manuscripts, images and databases, together with its fellowship program, the Library supports and encourages research in the political and economic life of the thirteen colonies and the new republic, African American studies, the decorative arts and material culture, archaeology, architectural history, and historical preservation.[3]

Tips

Our ability to respond to general research questions is limited. For an orientation or meet with a librarian, please schedule an appointment and include information about your topic and research goals.

Visual Resources services (757-565-8542) is open by appointment only. To schedule a visit, please contact the Visual Resources Librarian several days in advance.[2]

Guides

Genealogical Research A list of resources to assist genealogical research. These include some of library's finding aids, links to websites outside the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation;,and a contact form to request help from one of our librarians. Links to research guides such as: African Americans in Colonial and Revolutionary Virginia; Revolutionary War Virginians.

Virginia Gazette The subject guide leads you to notices of free blacks, runaways and slave occupations under topics such as Negroes, Free; Slaves, Runaway; and Slaves as Doctors, Ferrymen, Laundresses, etc.

Alternate Repositories

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If you cannot visit or find a source at the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library at Colonial Williamsburg, a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections

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